Looking for some advice from the NYC-ers. I'm coming to NY in a few weeks to visit friends and one of them wants to get a bunch of people together to do a dumpling crawl in Chinatown. I am totally down with this idea, but was wondering about veggie-ness. Are there places that I should be wary of their veg dumplings? Any places that do veg dumplings particularly well that I can suggest to my friends? They are all omni, so their knowledge is limited to where to find pork dumplings..

Dim Sum Go Go has an extensive list vedge options, as far as meat-eater-friendly restaurants go. Non-vegan ex-girlfriend (NVXGF) and I used to go pretty often. I haven't been in years, though--you'll probably want to confirm that everything is vegan.

If you go to VDSH, get the snow pea shoot dumplings! They're not on the menu, but they're great.

So my friends ended up wanting to go barhopping in th East Village...I still got my dumplings, though! Dumpling Man had vegan soup dumplings! They were mighty tasty! And I might have managed a visit to Lula's afterwards.

Overall, a good night. Check out the soup dumplings if you have a chance!